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The evolution of the JSA #87 cover.From Vu
JSA #87
(Jul 2006)
DC Comics
Vu: Personally speaking, I did not love the giant "Final Fight!" smacked in the middle of the cover.
Also: Did you notice they cropped off George Perez's signature?
Posted May 25, 2019, 12:11 AM by Vu Nguyen

DC is all excited about one of their upcoming books, KAMANDI CHALLENG a
round-robin exercise in which each issue has a different creative team
working on a single story. Each of the twelve issues is to end with a
cliffhanger (well, except the last one I suppose), and start with the
resolution to the last cliffhanger (well, except the first one). The
concept was tried years before in 1985 as DC CHALLENGE. Which featured
almost every character in the DCU (except Kamandi!), go fig. And I'll
spoil things right off the bat for ya, it got totally out of control!
Story wise, the DC CHALLENGE was a mess. Which is probably why it's
taken 31 years (holy $hit, it's been 31 years!?) before anyone got the
guts to try it again. It also sounds like Dan Didio and Keith Giffen are
trying to control things by having it center around Kamandi (boy of the
future), instead of it being the free for all that the DC CHALLENGE
was. Either way, let's wind back the clock and check out the DC
CHALLENGE!

The goal was to hook up writers and artist who never worked together, as
well as pencilers and inkers who never worked together. You got some
great match-ups like Curt Swan and Terry Austin and some please don't do
that again match-ups like Gil Kane and Klaus Janson. While each writer
knocked out their issue, the artist teams stumble three times. In issue
#9, Don Heck inked himself (not a treat), in issue #11 Dave Hunt inked
Keith Giffen and in issue #12 George Perez bowed out (probably because
he was knee deep in reinventing Wonder Woman) and he was replaced by an
army: Dan Spiegle (8 pages), Denys Cowan (4 pages), Luke McDonnell (4
pages), Stan Woch (4 pages), Steve Lightle (4 pages), Ross Andru (4
pages) and Tom Mandrake (10 pages). So nothing really worked as planed,
but let's check out each issue!